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NECTAR introduces a Byzantine-fault-tolerant partition detection primitive, fundamentally securing consensus protocols against network segmentation attacks and enhancing liveness.

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→Protocol Security

→Decentralized Sequencing

→Commitment Scheme

Decoupled Time-Lock Commitments Enforce Fair Transaction Ordering

Introducing Decoupled Time-Lock Commitments, a new primitive that uses VDFs to cryptographically enforce a future transaction reveal, fundamentally eliminating proposer-side MEV.

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→Transaction Throughput

→Compact Block Protocol

→Counting Bloom Filter

Express Consensus Algorithm Accelerates Proof-of-Authority Blockchains via Compact Block Protocol

ExClique fundamentally enhances Proof-of-Authority throughput by compacting block data and eliminating consensus-disrupting no-turn blocks.

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→Verifiable Credentials

→Block Proposal

→Decentralized Identity

Proof-of-Social-Capital Replaces Financial Stake for Decentralized Consensus

A new consensus protocol replaces financial stake with social capital, leveraging zk-proofs to democratize block production and mitigate wealth-based centralization.

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→Decentralized Network Participation

→KZG Commitment

→Zero-Knowledge Cryptography

Zero-Knowledge Proofs Achieve Sublinear Memory Scaling for Ubiquitous Verification

Research introduces the first sublinear memory ZKP system, reducing prover memory from linear to square-root complexity, enabling verifiable computation on mobile devices.

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→Proof Generation Complexity

→Cryptographic Compiler

→State Compression Proof

Zero-Knowledge Virtual Machines Enable Universal Verifiable Computation

ZK-VMs decouple computation from cryptographic proof generation, creating a universal compiler for verifiable execution that drastically scales layer two throughput.

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→Proof Generation

→Multi-Scalar Multiplication

→HyperPlonk Protocol

Zkspeed Hardware Dramatically Accelerates HyperPlonk Proving for Ubiquitous Verifiable Computation

A dedicated hardware accelerator for HyperPlonk achieves $801times$ speedup, fundamentally resolving the ZKP prover time bottleneck for scalable decentralized systems.

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→Distributed Systems Security

→Modular Security Results

→Asynchronous Communication

Formal Synthesis Proves Secure Distributed Cryptographic Applications

A new compiler security proof automatically translates simple programs into robust, distributed cryptographic systems, shifting security burden to formal verification.

→Layer Two Rollup

→Intermediate State Roots

→Application Specific Blockchain

Decoupled Execution Separates Consensus from Verifiable State Commitment

Decoupled Execution separates probabilistic ordering from deterministic state execution, allowing independent scaling of throughput and storage capacity.

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→Recursive Proof Composition

→Accumulation Scheme

→Cryptographic Primitive

Folding Schemes Enable Linear-Time Recursive Zero-Knowledge Computation

Nova's folding scheme fundamentally solves recursive proof composition by accumulating instances instead of verifying SNARKs, unlocking infinite verifiable computation.

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Algorithm NECTAR Secures Distributed Systems against Byzantine Partition Attacks